Hi John. Thanks. You've given me good advice in the past (kick mic's
and pedals). I tried to post this last night and could not, so I
e-mailed you. Now I can post so I'll put the post into the thread.

The IBM household computer is running Win 98OE; it has a Generic IDE
Disk Type 02; a CDROM Hitachi CDR-8430; and generic NEC Floppy drive.
It is connected to the Internet via Ethernet card-Road Runner cable
access. It is also connected to a p-n-p CRT monitor and an HP printer.
The new hard drive would be a replacement. Data preservation (we fear
the current HD is failing) is the motivation.

The Dell audio computer is running Win98SE; it has a Generic IDE Disk
Type 47; a CD burner Sony CD-RW CRX14OE and generic NEC Floppy drive.
It has never been connected to the Internet and is not connected to a
printer. Any added HD would be for storage.


P.S. The Maxtors I've looked at say they need Win98SE minimum. Adding
a Maxtor may be out. I may just get a new PC and transfer the data.


"John L Rice" wrote in message ...
I think it's really pretty easy but doing that sort of thing has been at
least occasionally part of my day job for over ten years..

A few questions first :
- what OS are you using
- what hard drive interface and internal or external ( IDE, SCSI, SATA, USB,
Firewire, ect )
- besides your existing hard drive what other drives do you already have
connected ( like CDR, DVD, ZIP drives etc )
- are you planning on replacing the existing hard drive with the new one or
is it going to be a second drive for storage, etc

Also, check out http://www.allstarshop.com/shop/shop.asp for good prices and
service on hard drive and other computer components. I've shopped with them
for years.

Best of luck!

John L Rice


"Darrell Klein" wrote in message
om...
[snip]how much of a pain is it to
install a second hard drive? [snip]